Owl Termly Focus
Owl Termly Focus
Termly Focus - Spring Term 2021
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Our topic this term is “Weather Around the World” and we have lots of exciting activities planned.
In our numeracy lessons we have already started to collect data about the weather which we will use in the coming weeks to create bar and line graphs. Each day we have been recording the temperature, wind speed, wind direction and weather condition in our own booklets and have used compasses and wind streamers to find the answers. Other areas that we will cover in numeracy this term are; months of the year, seasons, telling the time and money.
Across our literacy lessons we will be researching both fiction and non-fiction books allowing us to identify the key features for when we create our own. We will be learning how to write newspaper articles, information booklets, about animal habitats and different climates, as well as using our imagination to write our own fictional story about a crazy weather day. We have already started to use the story of ‘Noah’s Ark’ to influence our work and we will also look at ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ alongside a variety of non-fiction weather books.
The children will also be engaging in lots of sensory and exploration activities using different materials. They will have challenges set which will include, freeing plastic animals from ice to testing the durability of objects and seeing whether they are waterproof. We will also create shadow puppets when investigating night and day, design and create kites and write their own weather forecast which they will present to the class, amongst many other activities.
After speaking with the children we have chosen to place a strong focus on self help skills and learning to self-resource items they may need, to complete their tasks. Already in the few weeks we have been back we have seen some wonderful independent decision making so we will continue encouraging them to stretch and challenge themselves by providing them with roles and responsibilities in class.
It has been great to see that the children have already started the year working hard and applying themselves to all the tasks they have been given. Weather is a wonderful topic that allows for a broad scope of learning to take place and they have all shown lots of interest when learning about the different activities we have planned. I look forward to sharing their amazing work with you.
Termly Focus - Autumn Term 2020
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Owl Termly Focus - Spring 2020
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Our Owls were very happy to come back and catch up with all their friends last week. We are delighted that the topic this term is called, 'Tell Me a Story'. We love stories! We are going to get really stuck into a few food stories, starting with James and the Giant Peach.
We're going to use the stories to make some delicious foods. We began this week, comparing fresh peaches and tinned and giving marks out of 10. Other stories include: Mr Wolf's pancakes and The Giant Jam Sandwich. Please enjoy as many books as you can at home or at your local library.
Autumn Term 2019
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Class 4
Science
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Today we completed a science experiment looking at what plants need to grow. We planted sunflowers, however each sunflower was missing one of its basic needs. We look forward to seeing how and if they have grown next week.
Bake off
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Today in Class 4 we have made cupcakes. We made chocolate and vanilla they looked really nice however we have yet to taste them. We are sure they will be yummy !
Half term
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Our topic this term is 'Farm to Fork ' and Class 4 have been looking at the topic 'Grow it eat it ' . We have really enjoyed this half of the term. We hope you have a lovely half term.
Class 4
Bird food
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Today in Class 4 we have been making bird food. We have looked into how important birds are to spreading seeds for plants then to grow. We created the bird food by combining Lard and Bird seed together. The children really enjoyed this activity.
We are going on a bear hunt.
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In Science we explored the use of sound and how we hear things. We looked at the story ' We're going on a bear hunt' and used musical instruments to create our own musical story.